Head of Data Engineering, AI CoE

Owns the Fabric data plane: the certified data and semantics every agent and BI use case depends on. The Agilent Intelligence Fabric is a single governed substrate serving both BI and agentic AI; one substrate, two consumption modes. This role makes the data side of that promise real, meaning every certified data product carries a semantic definition, a data contract, policy and entitlement metadata including agent identity, lineage and observability, and a certification tier. 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree or equivalent.  Plus, broad knowledge of functional area(s) of responsibility. 

• Minimum of 10 years' experience formally or informally leading people, projects and/or programs. 

• A track record building enterprise data platforms that serve production AI systems, not only analytics; experience with semantic layers, ontologies, or knowledge representation at scale.  

• Deep familiarity with the modern lakehouse, vector, and graph landscape; experience with Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, or equivalent platforms in a multi-cloud estate.  

• Experience operating data contracts, lineage, and certification models in a regulated or quality-driven industry; life sciences or GxP exposure is a strong plus.  

• Curiosity about AI, its potential and its pitfalls. The field moves monthly, and the people who thrive here are genuinely curious about both sides of it: what these systems can newly do, and where they fail, mislead, or quietly degrade. We want people who read the failure analyses as eagerly as the launch posts, who experiment on their own initiative, and who hold excitement and skepticism at the same time without letting either one win permanently.  

• Lifelong learners. Whatever expertise a candidate arrives with will be partially obsolete within a year, and that is not a defect of the candidate; it is the condition of the field. We hire people who have reinvented their toolkit before and expect to do it again, who learn in public, and who treat being wrong as information rather than injury. A history of deliberate self-reinvention counts for more than any single credential.  

• Excellent communication and the ability to influence. Nothing in this organization ships by authority alone. Every role here persuades domain experts to engage, stewards to share what they know, sponsors to stay honest about value, and functions like Legal, Quality, and Security to move from gatekeeping to partnership. We look for people who write and speak clearly, who adapt their register from bench scientist to Board, and who change minds through credibility and clarity rather than escalation.  

• The instinct to automate curation with AI rather than scale it with headcount.